“At school we didn’t learn about sexual identities or anything like that.”

[On being groped at school:] “You thought, well you didn’t want it to happen but if it didn’t happen and it was happening to other people it made you think, or it said something about your attractiveness or something.”

“We went to an all-girls’ school…and the girls maybe didn’t know how to stand up for themselves”

“Consent workshops would have been quite useful.”

[On experts visiting school to discuss sexual abuse:] “It wasn’t our teachers who we see every day so they were taken more seriously.

Getting round a sex-ed ban

A porn site is redirecting web users from Utah, US, to sex education videos after the state rejected a bill to allow sex education lessons in school.

Utah schools are not allowed to encourage contraception, advocate sex outside of marriage or teach about “the intricacies of intercourse”.

The porn site, XHamster, is redirecting Utah web traffic to a YouTube channel featuring episodes on the female orgasm, how to put on condoms and how to reconcile religious beliefs with a healthy sex life.

“While we love porn, we don’t think that it should be relied on for sex ed any more than Star Wars is a substitute for science class,” xHamster writes in a blog post.

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